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The Motherland Calls (Russian: Родина-мать зовёт!, romanised: Rodina-mat' zovyot!) is a colossal neoclassicist and socialist realist war memorial sculpture on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia.
August 22, 1942 - February 2, 1943. Location: Russia. Volga River. Volgograd. Participants: Germany. Soviet Union. Context: World War II. Eastern Front. The Motherland Calls. Key People: Fedor von Bock. Vasily Chuikov. Erich von Manstein. Nicholas.
At the scale of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the memorial complex at the Battle of Stalingrad in Volgograd, Russia, includes the tallest statue in ...
Aug 8, 2019 · “The Motherland Calls” is a towering statue that dominates the summit of Mamayev Kurgan, a hill that overlooks the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad). The enormous artwork is the centerpiece...
Aug 30, 2017 · The most famous battle of World War II began a few days over three quarters of a century ago. More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad between the Nazi and Soviet armies. Almost half – over 1.8 million people – became casualties.
This memorial, entitled “The Motherland Calls!”, is one of the most iconic statues in the whole of Russia. It was the creation of Soviet sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich, who spent years designing and building it.
The monumental memorial was constructed between 1959 and 1967, and is crowned by a huge allegorical statue of the Motherland on the top of the hill. The monument, designed by Yevgeny Vuchetich , has the full name The Motherland Calls!
The Motherland Calls is a central part of the monument to the Heroes of Stalingrad Battle on Mamaev Kurgan in Volgograd. It is a part of the triptych; the other two parts are the Rear-front Memorial in Magnitogorsk and the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin.
"The Motherland Calls" is most likely the most famous war memorial of the Second World War ever made. This sculpture has a height of 52 meters (together with the sword even 85 meters) and represents the antique Nike (goddess of victory) calling her sons and daughters to resist the enemy and continue advancing onto it.
The Motherland Calls! Germany’s sudden invasion of the Soviet Union on the morning of June 22, 1941, left the Soviet population dazed and unprepared. Despite numerous warnings from his intelligence staff, Stalin had refused to believe that Hitler would violate the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the nonaggression treaty between the Soviet Union and ...
